width
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The machines use focused beams of ultraviolet light to etch on wafers of silicon billions of transistors roughly the width of a strand of DNA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
They changed the width of the antennas as well as the size and placement of the corrugations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
The width of the pitch was held by right-back Jules Kounde and left-winger Doue.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
By playing with four midfielders rather than five in their 5-4-1 shape, Panama will be unable to cover the width of the pitch as well as Ghana did with their five midfielders in a 4-5-1.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Up ahead, every police craft in the city sat nose to stern, forming a barricade that spanned the entire width of the river.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
Drilling delivered high gold grades, strong widths, and mineralized extensions, says analyst Mike Millikan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
The idea was that properties would be continuously redeveloped and that the streets would eventually reach new, consistent widths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
The team selected locations with different river volumes, widths, channel types and glacial silt content.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
The plan is to send multiple pipes of differing widths through the estimated 60m debris wall to create a micro-tunnel through which the workers can crawl out of the tunnel.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
We built up one side of the wagon with twelve-inch widths of lumber we called bang boards.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Vocabulary lists containing width
Geometry - Introductory
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Measurement and Data, List 2
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Geometry (Base List)
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